Vanessa Poehls, Im on borrowed time (ANIMAL & NATURE 2023)

I want to highlight how beautiful and important dingos are to the circle of life on Kgari.The blue ear tag 21 on this male means hes monitored. Dingos are ear tagged due to being of reasonable body condition and/or exhibits and/or anticipated to exhibit, problematic behaviour. K'gari island has the purest strain of Wongari (wild dingo) on the planet. They have lived on the island for thousands of years and are the apex predator. Most of the time, if a dingo meets a premature death on Fraser Island, it is the result of humans. Recent deaths of Dingos have been due to fishing, vehicle strikes, people exercising on the beach and feeding the dingos. This has caused a catastrophic chain of events recently leading to the euthenasia of the poor dingos. The dingo is being pushed aside for holiday makers.

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